Doom is 21 years old, and the appropriately retro-style Doomworld offers the 2014 Cacowards (er, short for 'Cacodemon Awards', I'm guessing), running down the year's best user-created maps. [more inside]

The Internet Arcade is a whole bunch of classic arcade games from the golden age, playable in your browser. Defender is theoretically playable at best, though, even with a gamepad, which shouldn't be a big surprise, I guess.

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